by KarenD | Apr 15, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
Childhood poverty is a widespread issue in the United States with one in five children living in need. Poverty has both immediate and lasting consequences that can follow a child into adulthood. Here are just ten ways poverty can impact the health and education of a...
by KarenD | Apr 9, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
By: Jean Rhodes “It is extraordinarily difficult to love children in the abstract, to devote oneself exclusively to the next generation. It is only through precise, attentive knowledge of particular children that we become – as we must – informed advocates for the...
by KarenD | Apr 1, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
By Stephanie Malia Krauss, youthtoday.org The other day I attended a diversity training at work. The facilitator talked about who and how we hire. She said something that really stuck with me: You get hired based on who you know; you get promoted based on who knows...
by KarenD | Mar 6, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes I once took a year’s leave from academia to serve as a match coordinator in a Boston-based mentoring program. One evening I found myself sitting on the edge of a couch in a subsidized apartment conducting an intake with nine year old Kayla and her mom....
by Miranda Aulie | Feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
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